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A Government bid to buy a shuttered sports centre may be scrapped, the House of Assembly has heard.
Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the Minister of Public Works, said the $1 million sale was still budgeted and approved by the House, but questions had...
DATE: Mar 10, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Immigration legislation will be amended to solve the problems of mixed-status families and settle the status of children born overseas to Bermudian parents, the national security minister said yesterday.
Wayne Caines insisted there would be “no givea...
DATE: Mar 07, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Bermuda Hospitals Board will complete its annual reports up to 2019 by the end of this year, health minister Kim Wilson told MPs yesterday.
Ms Wilson announced BHB’s financial statements for 2015 and 2016 had unqualified audits as she tabled the ...
DATE: Mar 07, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Funds earmarked for a Commission of Inquiry will not cover an investigation into the island’s child protection agency, the Premier has confirmed.
David Burt told Scott Pearman, the Opposition shadow legal affairs minister, that the $325,000 set aside...
DATE: Mar 06, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Immigration legislation to tackle the problems faced by mixed-status families is to be tabled in the House of Assembly today.
Wayne Caines, the Minister of National Security, will also make a ministerial statement on the subject.
The legislation was ...
DATE: Mar 06, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Drones could be drafted in to help police and other agencies in surveillance and search and rescue missions, the House of Assembly has heard.
Wayne Caines, the Minister of National Security, said on Wednesday that a specialist from the United Kingdom...
DATE: Mar 06, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
“Unacceptable” conditions at the Westgate men’s prison will be tackled, the Minister of National Security has vowed.
Wayne Caines was speaking after inmates at the West End jail highlighted their complaints to him.
Mr Caines told the House of Assembl...
DATE: Mar 06, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Soldiers who break rules on decommissioned weapons will be held accountable, the Minister of National Security has vowed.
Wayne Caines told MPs that the Royal Bermuda Regiment behaved with “honour and integrity” and tackled matters “head on”.
He was ...
DATE: Mar 06, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
An Opposition MP claimed “something don’t smell right” after he asked a Cabinet minister about the departure of the Bermuda Tourism Authority’s former chief executive.
Michael Dunkley pressed Zane DeSilva, the Minister of Tourism and Transport, on th...
DATE: Mar 05, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
No fentanyl overdoses took place at the island’s prison, the House of Assembly heard yesterday.
Wayne Caines, the Minister of National Security, told MPs there was “nothing to substantiate” use of the drug.
His comments came after Ben Smith, a One Be...
DATE: Mar 05, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter